Nottingham alabaster is a term used to refer to the English sculpture industry, mostly of relatively small religious carvings, which flourished from the...

Alabaster is a mineral and a soft rock used for carvings and as a source of plaster powder. Archaeologists, geologists, and the stone industry have different...

trade in religious sculpture made from Nottingham alabaster. During the late medieval period Nottingham alabasters were exported as far afield as Iceland...

the church. By the 15th century there was an industry exporting Nottingham alabaster altar reliefs in groups of panels over much of Europe for economical...

alabaster have been used for sculpture by many cultures including Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ancient Rome, the Byzantine Empire, and the Nottingham alabasters...

at this time. Becket enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury from a Nottingham Alabaster in the Victoria & Albert Museum Becket was ordained a priest on 2...

Foresters. Notable elements of the collections were: 15th-century Nottingham alabaster carvings, including those found in 1779 during the demolition of...

the church. By the 15th century there was an industry exporting Nottingham alabaster altar reliefs in groups of panels over much of Europe for economical...

only my face), and a rather battered alabaster tomb fragment which portrays a lily crucifix and a Nottingham alabaster panel depicting Archbishop Thomas...

to the early 16th century, England had a considerable industry in Nottingham alabaster reliefs for mid-market altarpieces and small statues, which were...

feet (11 m) in plan and is 40 feet (12 m) high. Twenty fluted pink Nottingham alabaster columns with Corinthian capitals support the heavily decorated, high-coved...

placing his foot on one of the sleeping soldiers is first found in English alabaster reliefs. Like many aspects of Resurrection imagery, it may have drawn...

near Tutbury once produced Nottingham alabaster, used for monumental carvings, and the priory church has a door with an alabaster arch (circa 1160) that is...

in the field agree that the image was carved in the Nottingham area in about 1450 from alabaster mined at nearby Chellaston, but the intervening 500 years...

in southwestern France. The retable is a typical product of the Nottingham alabaster industry. This piece was carved during the second half of the 15th...

71274) Leaf from Barbavara Book of Hours, Milan c. 1440 15th century Nottingham alabaster panel of the Resurrection of Christ German chandelier, red deer antler...

OBE (5 February 1928 – 8 November 2005) was a leading authority on Nottingham Alabaster and the author of several books and articles on the subject. Cheetham...

Thornton in York Minster and of Thomas Glazier in Oxford and elsewhere. Nottingham alabaster carvings, produced in considerable quantities by workshops to standard...

earlier ones are carved from alabaster, and are the products of the top end of the nearby late medieval Nottingham alabaster industry. Funerary art in St...

15th-century industry producing relatively cheap painted altarpiece kits in Nottingham alabaster, many of which were exported, the frame being added at the destination...

and Albert Museum (Norwich School), which also has a large painted Nottingham alabaster figure of the Archangel Michael some 70 cm tall. The rare surviving...

of the largest producers of mined alabaster in the United Kingdom, which was used to produce Nottingham Alabaster. By the end of the 18th century, Chellaston...

medieval scholar Francis Cheetham (1928–2005), leading authority on Nottingham Alabaster Henry Cheetham (1827–1899), Anglican bishop Henry Cheetham (pastor)...

been installed. During the restoration process, a collection of Nottingham alabaster carvings, mostly originating from the 15th century, were discovered...

very little survives. There was an industry producing Nottingham alabaster reliefs, made in Nottingham, but also Burton-on-Trent, Coventry, and perhaps Lincoln...

altar piece surrounded by Portuguese silversmith artworks, carved Nottingham alabaster pieces and Flemish wood reliefs.   The building at 6 rua Mouzinho...

of the Nottingham School of Art from 1923 to 1939. The frieze behind depicts traditional local crafts such as bell founding, mining and alabaster carving...

art, such as small ivory reliefs, stained glass, tapestries and Nottingham alabasters (cheap carved panels for altarpieces) were produced in similar conditions...

tomb located at the north side of the tower. The tomb is made from Nottingham Alabaster and has sustained some damage, although some of the original black...

late Middle Ages the street housed workshops for the production of Nottingham alabaster. The street housed the old Theatre Royal which was built in 1760...